Why does Visual Studio continue build after Stop debugging?

I have a Visual Studio solution with roughly 90 projects in it (mixture of Windows Forms in C#/VB.NET,WPF and Silverlight stuff). I have a Windows Forms application (C#) as the startup app. I press F5 to start debugging.

When I exit the debugged application by selecting Stop Debugging in Visual Studio or by selecting Exit in the debugged application, Visual Studio continues the compilation of different assemblies. I have seen no pattern in what assemblies are compiled and it doesn't happen every time.

If 开发者_运维问答I press F5 to start a debugging session, why would Visual Studio continue to build assemblies after I have finished debugging?

Maybe those assemblies that are compiled after your application launches do not affect your application and VS wants to launch your application as early as possible?

Have you checked your solution's Configuration Properties ? You can specify there which projects to be built.

Are you using Edit-and-continue? If so, it's rebuilding the edited assemblies.